Halliday M.A.K. The Language of Science

Volume 5 in the Collected Works of M. A. K. Halliday. Ed. by Jonathan J. Webster. — London. New York: Continuum, 2004. — ISBN: 0-8264-5871-8.'Halliday's investigations into grammatical metaphor take us deeply into the way we construct and expand meanings, starting with representations of concrete experienced events and ending with theoretical worlds populated by abstract entities linked through generalized relations and causalities. He finds these processes most strikingly in the development of the modern sciences that have historically created robust virtual worlds of theory from observable material events. He sees the same processes of grammatical metaphor as children learn to participate in our built symbolic environment, particularly as they are introduced to these meaning systems in schools, an institution designed expressly for that purpose.' Professor Charles Bazerman, University of California, Santa Barbara.Acknowledgements
Introduction: How Big is a Language?
On the Power of Language
Grammatical Metaphor
Editor's Introduction
Language and the Reshaping of Human Experience
Language and Knowledge: the 'Unpacking' of Text
Things and Relations: Regrammaticizing Experience as Technical Knowledge
The Grammatical Construction of Scientific Knowledge: the Framing of the English Clause
Scientific English
Editor's Introduction
On the Language of Physical Science
Some Grammatical Problems in Scientific English
On the Grammar of Scientific English
Writing Science: Literacy and Discursive Power